So does her father, who runs his California-based security-guard firm from afar in order to keep close tabs on his daughters' development.

In 1993 it expanded its heavy civil construction-operation, when it merged with Kasler Corporation, a California-based firm with large-scale operations in heavy-civil construction.

The contract was eventually awarded to Computer Technology Associates (CTA), a California-based firm, owned by John Torquato, Jr, a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Two of their co-authors are from Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based firm which is the world leader in advising the insurance industry on climate change.

Widget was produced by Zodiac Entertainment, a Studio City, California-based firm backed by British media company Central Independent Television.

Mr. Ferguson, who is executive vice president of a tiny California-based firm, Leland O'Brien Rubinstein, responds that it was highly unlikely that portfolio insurers were responsible for the market's storms that day.

The Palo Alto, California-based firm, was founded in 1999 with sponsorship from Accel Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Worldview Technology Partners.

Code-named Thunder, this latest Sparc effort is again being bankrolled Hyundai and is being touted by the La Jolla, California-based firm at up to 200 SPECmarks.

The name Frisbie was picked up by Wham-O, a California-based firm who had acquired the rights to the "Pluto Platter".

A Yankees official described the situation revolving around Howe and CDT, the California-based firm charged with testing Howe, as a misunderstanding.